⁷ There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth `is' abundant.

¹⁷ because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,

¹⁰ as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

¹⁰ we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

¹¹ unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,

¹¹ the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

¹² I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things -- as many as I possess.

¹³ `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner!

¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

⁹ I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty -- yet thou art rich -- and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but `are' a synagogue of the Adversary.

¹⁹ liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

⁵ Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

⁷ And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;

⁸ Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,

³³ sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

²¹ so `is' he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

¹ Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.

² Give a portion to seven, and even to eight, For thou knowest not what evil is on the earth.

¹¹ Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.

⁹ Better `is' the lightly esteemed who hath a servant, Than the self-honoured who lacketh bread.

²⁴ There is who is scattering, and yet is increased, And who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want.